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There's a reason why Sony announced their digital-only platform around this time. People who bought a PS5 want to play games while not spending the money you'd need for a PC. Now with RAM, graphics cards and storage prices going to the clouds, even less people are able to build/buy a PC. Even if the PS6 costs 799€ (or something around that price range), it will be way cheaper than buying/building a PC, especially since the crisis won't stop in the near future.
At least in the EU PC market you won't find anything new near that price range. 32GB of DDR5 RAM, a 1TB SSD and an Arc B580 alone cost 900€, which is a bit more 1000 dollars. With CPU (7500f; AM5), mainboard, cooler, case and power supply, you'd end up at 1300€, which is 1500 dollars. You could save money by buying into AM4 since DDR4 is 200€ cheaper than DDR5, but do you really want to buy into an old platform?
I have a PS5 myself and to be honest, I'd like a PC. I haven't even played on the PS5 since a month or so because I don't have any games which I really want to play on there. I don't like the closed ecosystem, that's why I also despise the Apple ecosystem I was forced into. My laptop fortunately can handle emulation pretty good (even some Switch games), but it's still an iGPU (Arc 130t; there are iGPUs like the 8060s that have good performance, but those are also rather for Mini PCs).
I also think that it's hard for people to let go of their stuff. PS5 users probably rather pay 80-130€ a year for PS Plus than buying a PC because it makes the PS5 obsolete, mainly because of the closed ecosystem.
As much as I agree with you about owning your games and moving to Linux PC, I have to disgree when you say there is 0 reason to be on a closed ecosystem as a gamer.
I’ll probably never buy a Playstation again as I’m in the process of moving my gaming to Linux (Steam Deck for now, gaming rig when the prices go down), but Sony games used to be/are great and everything works perfectly out of the box.
Pc gaming/Linux is becoming better, but it’s not there yet for ease of use.
I’m ready to make the sacrifice, but a lot of people aren’t because consoles still have advantages.
That’s why I have to react when people are saying that consoles have nothing over PC. It’s true for us, but not for everyone.
Imo, I think it is still difficult for many people to build a PC even if you give them all the parts that they need
lol, it did check out lmao.
Well, I have a PC tho, I bought a pre build one. But I still find console more convenient.
I can't spend the crazy amount of money it would take to build a new tower right now. I have a 5070 laptop, that'll have to do I guess. I'll delete Sony accounts.